Climate change is here to stay unless you do something about it." The leaders descended on Bonn to re-energise negotiations hamstrung by America's rejection of the 2015 Paris Agreement. Labelling climate change "the defining threat of our time", Guterres told delegates that continued investment in fossil fuels made no financial sense and was "counterproductive". Macron, for his part, described climate change as "the most significant struggle of our time", and urged European countries to open their wallets for the UN's IPCC climate science panel, which is facing a critical budget shortfall. Merkel agreed climate change was "a, if not the, central challenge of mankind," adding the world must "stand together to implement" the Paris Agreement.

Source: The Nation Bangkok November 15, 2017 19:30 UTC